The wife of a guy I work with suffered from the same condition during her pregnancies. She couldn’t keep anything down for the entire nine months and had to be on an IV. She also eventually lost her teeth (or maybe it was just extreme decay, I forget) because the baby sucked all the calcium it could get. Hyperemesis gravidarum can be nasty, nasty business.

I dunno. It doesn’t really bother me at all. Maybe it’s because I’ve just started trying. Maybe it’s because I’m already aware that, being 41, this might not happen for me and that’s okay. I don’t feel pressured by her because it’s not like the world will stop getting pregnant until I catch up. you know?